Haematococcus is a genus of algae in the family Haematococcaceae. It is a freshwater alga with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution, found from every continent except Antarctica.
Haematococcus is a genus of algae in the family Haematococcaceae. It is a freshwater alga with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution, found from every continent except Antarctica.
Members of this group are a common cause of the pink color found in birdbaths, which is caused by the carotenoid pigment astaxanthin. Because of their ability to produce astaxanthin, Haematococcus (and in particular H. lacustris) is widely used in the biotechnology industry.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).